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Read it my way: a reader for letters and long text
A letter from an office can be hard to get through: small print, long sentences, and the one date that matters somewhere in the middle. Paste the words here. Make them bigger, give them room, change the colours, and read the whole thing or one sentence at a time. Where your browser has a voice of its own, it can read to you. The page also lists every date, amount and phone number it can find, and gives you four boxes to write down what the letter wants.
Good to know
What the page does with the text
- It cuts the text into paragraphs and sentences by looking at full stops, question marks and line breaks. It gets this wrong sometimes, most often around short forms such as “etc.” and in text copied out of a PDF.
- Back and Next move one sentence. So do the left and right arrow keys when the text has the focus. Tapping a sentence marks it.
- The counts under step 2 are plain counting: words, sentences, paragraphs and the length of the longest sentence. They are not a reading-level score.
- It keeps how the reader looks on this device, so your size and colours are there next time.
What this page can’t do
- It does not understand anything it shows. The list of dates, amounts and phone numbers comes from matching patterns such as “October 31, 2026”, “within 10 days” or “$214.00”. It can miss one, and it cannot tell a deadline from any other date.
- It cannot read a photo, a scan or a PDF file. It needs the words themselves, pasted or typed. Some phones can copy the words out of a photo; that is the phone’s own feature, and we cannot say whether yours has it.
- It does not translate, and it does not turn hard words into easy ones.
- It gives no advice: not legal, not medical, not about money. Your notes are your own words.
- It may have no voice. Read aloud works only where the browser reports a voice stored on the device.
About the voice
Read aloud uses a computer voice that is part of your device or your browser. It is not a recording of a person and it does not belong to Scarlet Beast. Some browsers also offer voices that work by sending the text to a company’s servers. This page leaves those out, going by what the browser reports about each voice. We have no way to check that report ourselves.
With a letter that wants something
- Look for who sent it and any case or reference number, and write them in the first box.
- Look for a date and what happens on it. The list in step 3 is a place to start, not the answer.
- Write down what you do not understand and take the sheet to someone: a caseworker, a legal aid office, a librarian, a person you trust.
- If the letter gives a phone number, check it against the office’s own website or an older letter before you call.
These are everyday ideas in our own words. They are not legal advice, and they do not fit every letter.
Tools that go with this
- Dates to keep: put the dates from the letter on one list, with the days left and a file for your phone’s calendar.
- Call script: know what you will say before you ring the office that sent the letter.
- Paper trail: a record of every call, letter and visit, with what is still to do.
- Scam check: for a letter, a text or a call that asks for money or details.
- Legal help: free and low-cost places to ask what a letter means.
- One step at a time: break what the letter asks into steps small enough to start.
- Speak for me: a message in huge letters to show someone when talking is hard.
- Save these tools on your phone so they open without a signal.
The tool and its wording were written with AI (Claude) for Scarlet Beast (our AI policy). The page itself contains no AI: nothing in it reads, judges or rewrites your text. It was not reviewed by a reading specialist, a speech and language therapist or a lawyer, and we make no claim that any setting here helps with any condition. This page's sentence and date patterns are built for English text. For a letter in Spanish there is Leer a mi manera, with patterns for Spanish; both pages keep the same look settings on this device. The page takes up to 30,000 characters at a time. Found a mistake? Email [email protected].